Senior DevOps Engineer

Randstad Digital Americas; Beaverton (OR); Remote; USD 84,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a 12-month remote contract to support mission-critical enterprise platforms and migrate legacy delivery pipelines to scalable cloud environments.

You will design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure-as-code, and enhance observability, security, and cost efficiency across cloud deployments while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering.
• 3+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Operate within an Agile SDLC environment, contributing to requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, repeatable, and reliable application delivery.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation frameworks for cloud environments.
• Build and evolve observability capabilities, including logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, dashboards, SLIs and SLOs.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency of production systems.
• Lead or support application, infrastructure, database, and cloud migration initiatives with automation and post-migration monitoring.
• Develop automation tools and frameworks that reduce manual operational work and improve engineering productivity.
• Mentor engineers in CI/CD, cloud operations, observability, automation, IaC, and production support.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud engineering

Observability

AI tools

SRE

Automation

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Terraform

ARM templates

Ansible

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

Job Summary

Join our mission-critical enterprise platforms team supporting high-volume legal and claims processing solutions. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will drive modern infrastructure practices, streamline deployment velocity, and spearhead the migration of legacy delivery pipelines to scalable cloud environments. This is a 12-month remote contract opportunity operating within an Agile, engineering-centric culture.

location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $60.87 - 66.67 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Operate within an Agile Scrum SDLC environment, contributing to requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines that enable secure, repeatable, and reliable application delivery.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation frameworks for cloud environments.
• Build and evolve observability capabilities, including application and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, dashboards, service-level indicators, and service-level objectives.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency of production systems.
• Lead or support application, infrastructure, database, and cloud migration initiatives, including planning, automation, validation, rollback strategies, and post-migration monitoring.
• Develop automation tools and frameworks that reduce manual operational work and improve engineering productivity.
• Partner with application teams to establish deployment standards, operational readiness criteria, monitoring requirements, and incident-response practices.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, identify root causes, document findings, and implement durable corrective and preventive actions.
• Proactively identify risks in technical designs, deployment processes, system performance, observability coverage, or architecture and elevate them appropriately.
• Apply AI tools as part of daily work to analyze systems, troubleshoot issues, design automation, improve documentation, and accelerate delivery workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to establish scalable platform and DevOps practices.
• Mentor engineers in areas such as CI/CD, cloud operations, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and production support.
• - Demonstrate a self-directed, bias-for-action mindset when solving operational and engineering problems.

Qualifications

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a related software engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• 3+ years of experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications in cloud environments; Microsoft Azure is strongly preferred.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation tools, such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing observability solutions, including centralized logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, distributed tracing, and incident response processes.
• Experience building automation frameworks or scripting operational workflows using technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience supporting application, database, infrastructure, or cloud migration efforts.
• Experience working with SQL databases and data migration or deployment processes.
• Experience supporting high-volume, highly available, multi-tier enterprise systems.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to analyze, design, debug, automate, document, and improve daily engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with security best practices for cloud infrastructure, application delivery, identity, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Outstanding troubleshooting, incident-management, and technical support skills.

Skills

Ansible,modern architectures,AI,code automation,automated testing,Azure Kubernetes Service,ARM templates,APM,Bash,Bicep,cloud infrastructure,Cloud Engineering,cloud migration,cloud environments,configuration management,logging,data migration,database,managing CI/CD pipelines,DevOps,distributed systems,Docker,distributed tracing,Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC),JavaScript,Kubernetes,Microsoft Azure,Node.js,developer tools,Python,Relational database,SRE,SQL,scripting skills,software engineering,Terraform,TypeScript,PowerShell,Troubleshoot,reliability,proactively,architecture,automation,automated,class action,metrics dashboards,distributed engineering,infrastructure,claims,financial,Platform Engineering,drive system,QA,security,scalability,deployment processes,telemetry,workflows

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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